Bus Cuts (1)

Tony Devenish: You have justified bus cuts in Central London by claiming you’ll be able to spend the savings on increasing buses in outer London. Please provide detailed figures on the savings made by reducing buses in Central London and the additional spending on buses in Outer London over the course of your Mayoralty.

The Mayor: The commitment I have made is that changes to bus services in central London will allow us to increase the kilometres operated in outer London. Transport for London’s (TfL) most recent Business Plan set out how the service will grow by five million kilometres in outer London over the course of the five-year plan. Total bus kilometres will remain unchanged as increases in outer London kilometres will offset reductions in inner London kilometres.
It is difficult to disaggregate costs in the way requested as bus routes often operate across both inner and outer London. Instead, this is reported by bus kilometres; this is because bus routes can be divided into links from which kilometres can be calculated.